Sunday, August 29, 2010

Yriel Ebay

Normally, I'd be opposed to buying prepainted Warhammer figurines from Ebay, but the ungodly purple mess of my own Yriel model had me frankly embarrassed to use him of late. It's a tough call when you really pride yourself on your own craftsmanship, and I was always reluctant to ever consider using models painted by anyone other than myself.

Until I saw this...

Not just the fact that my own Yriel model is such a travesty to the hobby in all its purple display of hideousness, that it's better off as Nurgle's weird ginger cousin rather than a majestic corsair prince, when I saw this on ebay auctioned by Sniper Hit I just had to have it.

Painted and converted by Ben Burkinshaw, its striking color and masterful blending means it won't be missed on the tabletop. I for one will be proud to take him to Gaelcon in October and lead my Eldar to victory!

Anyways, I have a bus to catch and emails to get through, after watching the awesomeness that is The Valley of Gwagi - Jurassic Park meets the Wild Bunch. Need I say more?

5 comments:

Nice model Iggy, I'm currently considering what conversions I want to do on Yriel besides using a Fire Dragon head on him I hadn't figured out his army yet. But the Shield all though I would opt to change the position of the arm a little and replace the spear looks pretty cool.

Since My army is a bit dragon themed m probably going to use the Dragon shield from the High Elfes Noble Kit Thanks for a great Insparation!!!